But we will this day deliver you with your body so that you may be a sign to those who come after you. And most surely the majority of the people are heedless of our signs. (THE QURAN 10:92)

This passage from the Quran revealed in the seventh century, has reference to the death of Pharaoh near the Red Sea, while in pursuit of Moses and the Israelites, and indicates that his body was not lost in the sea, but cast ashore, and afterwards embalmed and that this should, in due course be made known to generations to come.

The Bible makes no mention of it, nor do we find anything about it in any book of history. Amongst the ancient Egyptian mummies that have been discovered is the body of the Pharaoh, Merneptah son of Ramses II, who has been identified with the Pharaoh of Moses. As early as the seventh century AD, the Quran had asserted that the Pharaoh’s body was preserved as a sign for man, but it was only in the 19th century that the body’s discovery gave concrete proof of this prediction.

Those who seek among modern data for proof of the veracity of the Holy Scriptures, will find a magnificent illustration of the above verse of the Quran dealing with the Pharaoh’s body by visiting the Royal Mummies Room of the Egyptian Museum, Cairo.